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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDr. Oz: Reopening Schools "May Only Cost Us Two to Three Percent in Terms of Total Mortality"
From the article:
To read/see more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/04/16/dr-oz-reopening-schools-may-only-cost-us-two-to-three-percent-in-terms-of-total-mortality.html
First, Dr. Oz, the term "may only cost us..." is an assumption.
Second, do these schoolchildren have parents, and grandparents, and relatives with chronic conditions that might make them more susceptible? This man is speaking like a lunatic.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)for inflicting this quack on us.
SWBTATTReg
(22,297 posts)What a certifiable idiot w/ an even worse quote 'we need our mojo back' ...
If we get our 'mojo' back, I hope that it's without 'dr. oz'! Worthless (worse than worthless) for even voicing the acceptable losses of children at any percentage amount (or for that matter, any age range is NOT acceptable).
ProfessorGAC
(65,580 posts)...and got agreement; what happened to "First, do no harm." 7-10 million dead seems like doing harm.
uponit7771
(90,379 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He should go into practice with Ben Carson.
RussBLib
(9,068 posts)...then it's cool as long as most of them are Trumpers.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)This man is an idiot.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)This would mean that we could expect about 18 -27 of them to die in one school year.
Who the fuck is this acceptable to besides vampires?
I hope they never become officers in the armed forces if they are this cavalier with children's lives.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The rest of us do not really matter to people like him. Many times, a crisis reveals who we really are.
Igel
(35,408 posts)It showed up in the NYT last week: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/06/world/asia/06reuters-health-coronavirus-schools.html .
While that's Reuters, the reporter was talking about pre-publication access to ttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30105-X/fulltext .
If we eliminate everything with "may" and "could" in it, we'd be hard-put to say much about anything. Esp. if things are modeled. The usual trick is that "may" and "could" mean "does" and "has" when we want it to, and are meaningless buzzing sounds when it's "may" or "could" something contrary to us. It's a bad practice, but it's widely if not wildly approved.
Even Cuomo's "30,000 ventilators" was based on hard numbers and solid facts, he said, among which he explicitly included "modeling." See what he did there? "May" = "must".
All of these modal verbs indicate only possibility. Anytime a main verb is modified by a modal, the result is a guess.
This will work, versus this may work.
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